Response to Religious Correctness

The author starts off explaining his problem as apathy toward religious studies growing as well as the amount of religious people growing. Our society is becoming more hostile towards religious contentions instead of becoming more interested in challenging our religious beliefs. He has experienced this through his students being more disinterested and argumentative in the courses that he is teaching. I can see why he is using this example but am skeptical whether apathy is the driving cause behind students not signing up or enjoying his classes.

He explained how a student had felt attacked by him in a lecture for asking the student to think about something that contradicts his current beliefs and reported this to his superior. This example once again made me skeptical because there could be other factors, especially regarding an argument or disagreement, which he could have left out to express his point. As the author stated that he wasn’t able to give his side of the story before he was judged to be guilty by his superior, I wonder what the student’s side of the story was so I, as his reader of the author’s article, don’t make a swift judgment by his standards?

Taylor then transitions into how society has become obsessed with public relations and politically influenced. From this point in the article, the author sounds like an old person that hasn’t warmed up to the idea of personal computing and the internet. These technologies have revolutionized the social lives of the most recent group of students he is referring to. I wonder if the author has taken into consideration the technological advancement and how it has changed the way his students are learning and relating to his subject? On most of the new social mediums, religious topics are denounced generally because the only people that discuss these topics are the ones with polarized views. This has greatly attributed to youth’s apathy towards discussing religion at all.

Taylor goes on for the next...